I am not sure why, and it could just be me but on my FreeBSD system using$time = posix_times();$time['ticks'] is an enormous value that bears no relation to the system uptime (I tested by rebooting the system, the number does not change).I checked my timecounters, they tick every 10.000msec and I did the maths on the returned value and it suggested the machine had been up for over 200 days - it was reformatted about a week ago.This could be to do with FreeBSD, or *BSD, or just *idiots like me but just check before you use the function. ~FreeBSD 5.1-R, Apache 2.0.46, PHP4.3.2